TextField in Oracle: any alternatives?

2015-07-10 Thread Robert Martin
Hi all, I have a question about best practices with storing strings in an Oracle DB. I've grown accustomed to using TextFields wherever possible, as I mainly work in Postgres and this seems to be recommended: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7354588/django-charfield-vs-textfield However, I'm

Oracle GIS backend - no bulk_create?

2015-07-02 Thread Robert Martin
Hi all, I've been trying to do a bulk_create using the Oracle GIS backend (Django 1.8.2) and getting an AssertionError: File "C:\Users\robert.martin\Envs\ais\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\db\backends\oracle\operations.py" , line 248, in modify_insert_params assert len(placeholders)